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Mar 2021
Police will be patrolling the Harrogate district's main roads in a HGV cab as part of a new campaign to catch drivers using mobile phones.
North Yorkshire Police said today it had borrowed the cab to give them a better view to detect mobile phone use and other dangerous behaviour.
The campaign, named Operation Tramline, follows a similar initiative last year that caught a man who took both hands off the wheel to use his phone and a lorry driver who rolled a cigarette.
Highways England, which runs Operation Tramline nationally and owns three unmarked cabs, is loaning the vehicle.
Traffic Constable Mark Patterson, of North Yorkshire Police’s roads policing group, said he had seen people lose their lives because motorists got distracted. He added:
Last year North Yorkshire Police also discovered:
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